BIDMC Researcher and Molecular Biologist Named AAAS Fellow
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 21 -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center issued the following news:
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BIDMC Researcher and Molecular Biologist Named AAAS Fellow
For decades, scientists wrote off roughly 98 percent of the human genome as evolutionary clutter -- literally called junk DNA. Through his pioneering research, Frank Slack, PhD, has helped reveal what that so-called junk is actually doing: acting as the genome's control system, the knobs that . . .
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BIDMC Researcher and Molecular Biologist Named AAAS Fellow
For decades, scientists wrote off roughly 98 percent of the human genome as evolutionary clutter -- literally called junk DNA. Through his pioneering research, Frank Slack, PhD, has helped reveal what that so-called junk is actually doing: acting as the genome's control system, the knobs that . . .